VARIATION OF ORGANOCHLORINE PESTICIDE LEVELS DURING THE THERMIC TREATMENT OF COW MILK

Caused by persistence and lipophility, organochlorine pesticides accumulate in the food chain especially in the lipidic phase of organisms. Due to the incorporation of endogenous fat in milk production, the accumulated organochlorine pesticides are excreted making this one of the impor­ tant means o...

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Autores: WALISZEWSKI, Stefan M., AGUIRRE, Ángel A., INFANZON, Rosa M., SILICEO, José
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2012
País:México
Institución:UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO
Repositorio:Revista Internacional de Contaminación Ambiental
Idioma:español
OAI Identifier:oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/32544
Acceso en línea:https://www.revistascca.unam.mx/rica/index.php/rica/article/view/32544
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:organochlorine pesticides
milk
heat treatment
plaguicidas organoclorados
leche
tratamiento térmico
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Sumario:Caused by persistence and lipophility, organochlorine pesticides accumulate in the food chain especially in the lipidic phase of organisms. Due to the incorporation of endogenous fat in milk production, the accumulated organochlorine pesticides are excreted making this one of the impor­ tant means of mammalian decontamination. The cow’s milk is routinely hygienized by heat treat­ ment, which consists of heating the milk to boiling point or leaving the milk to boil up to 10 minutes. The determined organochlorine pesticides (HCB, a,b,g­HCH isomers, pp’DDT, op’DDT and pp’DDE) in the fat of raw milk, heated milk and boiled milk indicate an increase of statistically significant levels in the heated milk and a decrease in the boiled milk. The phenomenon is caused by the specific ligament of pesticides to the lipophilic components of milk and by denaturation of these ligaments by the heat treatments.